Love it or hate it, there’s no disputing that there’s more to lavender essential oil than meets the nose.
Distilled from the flowers of the plant, lavandula angustustifolia, lavender essential oil has a sweet, floral herby scent with woody undertones. Whilst we know that lavender oil can have a sedative effect and help us sleep, it is also regarded as the most versatile oil therapeutically.
Lavender can help with all kinds of skin conditions, ease muscular aches and pains, aid the respiratory system and assist with digestion. It has a harmonising effect on the nervous system; exerting a sedative or a stimulant action depending on what you need and assisting to our responses to stress.
Sometimes described as the ‘mother’ or ‘grandmother’ of essential oils, lavender can care for a multitude of physical and psychological problems, multi-tasking just like a mum.
So next time you think that lavender is for grandmas – remember how formidable they can be!